Yes I’ve flown in and out of National a few times.
Another true story. My boss and I were on the Tuesday morning red eye to National for another in and out meeting.
It was so foggy when we went into final approach you literally could not see 12 inches out of the window. I hate flying anyway but my boss was a former cobra pilot in Viet Nam. Traffic is stacked up and they have us circling for about a half hour. Then we get the OK for final approach. I’m having a silent heart attack and my boss is telling me don’t worry about it everything is fine. A couple of minutes later when we should be just about to touch down the pilot guns it and we’re going back up.
The pilot comes on at some point and says he didn’t like the look of that approach so were going around and come in on a different runway. Finally we get on the ground the second go around. What a nightmare! 😆
Going into Cleveland’s Burke Lakefront, You are on final, you can see the faces on the people in the high-rise office buildings. I normally don’t look left to right on an ILS approach, but I was shocked at how close the approach puts to to high-rise buildings! They were just building the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame at the time. We had to meet with the Kirby Vaccum Cleaner engineers to fix a component problem with a part we made for them for builds in Andrews Texas.